Train to Tibet

This train journey ran from Xining in the Qinghai province of China to Lhasa, Tibet, a distance of 1215 miles. The track from Golmud to Lhasa is new, completed in 2006. The engines are built by GE, and the cars by Bombardier of Canada.This is currently one of the great railway journeys of the world and certainly the highest.. One could take a train from Beijing to Xining and from there to Lhasa, which is about a 48 hour trip. Xining to Lhasa is about 27 hours.